The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 9, 1911, Page 8

WORKMEN'S INSURANCE: WOULD _COMPEL SOCIAL EFFICIENCY Louis Brandeis Says That if the State or the Employer Had to Pay the Bills There Would Be Fewer Maimed and Worn Out Workingmen. (Following is a condensation of the address of Louis D, Brandeis before the National Conference of Charities and Correction at Boston last evening, Brandeis a true soldier of the common good. What he says is well worth the attention of every man and woman.—Editor.) BY LOUIS D. BRANDEIS | Time was when distress among wage garded as “misfortune,” and it was thought that “charity means to meet It. e | We have come to know now that sickness, invalidity, old age, and even accident nor the premature death of the Sreadwinner is a natural incifent to industry, A cer. tain per cent of wage earners will inevitably meet illness, accident, death and unemplgrment, and this certainty mus® be met with some: thing more definite than sporadic or emotional charity, especially as & constantly increasia, eo of our people are being cwfiverted into employes Sickness and death benefit® have been resorted to, but these have only made clearer the feed of a comprehensive system fof the pro- tection of wage earners and their widows and orphans. Gérmany and France, and latterly England, have advanced far - meeting the probitm. The United States must follow the same path, for the same condl- tions that have forced working- men’s insurance abroad operate here. American democracy rests upon the basis of the free citizen. Po- L. D. BRANDEIS Mtically the American workingman fs free, so far as law cat make him so. But is he really free? Can ‘any man be really free who is constantly in danger of becoming de- pendent for mere subsistence upon somebady and something else than his own exertion and conduct? | If the government permits conditions to exist which make large | classes of citizens financially dependent, the great evil of dependence id at least be minimized by the state's assuming, or causing to be assumed by othera in some form, the burden Incident to its owl shortcomings. The manufacturer who fails to recognize fire insurance, deprecta- tion, interest and taxes as current charges of the business, treads the path to bankruptcy. And that natign does the like which failg to ree ognize and provide against the same losses on the part of its wage earners, What sum would be required annually to provide an adequate sys tem of workingmfn’s insurapce cannot be determined from existing data The tost would obviously vary greatly in different occupations | and different communities. Ten per cent of current wages would go far, but even so large a charge would afford merely alleviation, and complete indemnity would probably cost 25 per cent of the average @aily wage. Of this, indemnity from sickness, accident, invalidity, pre- Mature death or old age would aggregate three-fifths of the cost and unemployment two-fifths. This huge ang apparently progibitive expense should not, however, deter us from taking action now. On the contrary, it brings clearly to our minds the enormous waste Incident to present social and industrial conditions. Once this waste Js realized by the people it will be cured. For example, the industrial tasurante companies find that the deaths © 1,000 among workingmen, insured, at varioug ages, are Yollows: nty years, 10.5; 25 years, 14.1; 35 years, 17.2, and 56 years, 35. The + te rate in England at the same ages is from one-third to one-half) er. Here we have an average death rate among the workingmen at their Most productive age—25 to 35 years—which is nefrly twice as great as the death rate among those engaged in other occupations. And this does not include extra hazardous trades. Can there be any doubt that If this heavier mortality had to be | adequately compensated for by the state or the industries, and the | Ansurance cost paid from current earnings, ITS CAUSE WOULD BE INVESTIGATED, and the evil conditions remedied? Seclety and tn- dustry would find how much cheaper it is to conserve than to destr@y. | Mere description of the misery ungecessarily entafled by the in- human conditions will fail to secure the removal of these conditiogs in industry and in the life of our peopie from which titis misery springs. But if society and industry and the individual WERE MADE TO PAY from day to day the actua! cost of the sickness, accident, Invalidity, pre Mature death or premature old age consequent upon excessive hours of labor, of unhygienic conditions of work, of unnecessary risks, and of | irregularity in employment, these evils would be rapidly reduced. We need comprehensive, system of workingmen's insurance as an INCENTIVE TO JUSTICE." We need it—"Lest we for Mrs. Berry Taught Her Lesson: Won't Tell Any More Jail Secrets: Gets Her Joh Back: Wardall in It Mrs. Henrietta Berry, deposed city jail matron, wilt be back at work at 10 o'clock tonight. After a few minutes’ deliberation the civil service comission last night voted to réinstate her. There was no fight made on Mrs. Berry by the police department. One was almost led to believe that she had promiesd to “keep her eyes open and her mouth shut,” tie jail rule which Mrs. Berry formerly | broke. The evidence indicated that the responsibility for the “nude parade” belonged to Jameg F. Mc- Orne significant fact about the trial was that po fight was niade against Mrs. Berry's reinstatement by those who were responsible for her removal. There is no doubt about her being removed as “punishment for telling on Corbett She had told Wardall of Corbett's brutal treatment of the Indian girl. She had told him that she knew a Sreat deal more about jail brutali ties and that she intended te tel! the grand jury about it. But she never'told the grand jury ‘awy more than was already public lmowledge. Wardall had told her it he would stick by her, and he iid. Wardall’s partner, Winter S. Martin, was made her attorney, and MRS. BERRY. he advised her not to make further disclosures but to try to get into harmony with the jail management ain. So Wardall stuck by her by sacrificing his former principles of jail reform, = Things You Should |2!:7"".,2:%.."", THE STAR—FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 1911. UNCH OF MAYORS A atate “house” of mayors will be held in Mayor Dilling’s office Sunday afternoon. Spo kane, Tacoma, Everett, Belling. ham, Aberdeen, Hoquiam, Olym pla and othe™ of the long “ Pay cities will be represented. he e t ree Brae igs gp a purpose of the meeting le to | Tree wee maa Doaséd oad oe discu municipal problems . from ae many different view out ¥ we ag! Pe i points possible, much in the em a same manner ae is done by the different governors in the “Hoke of Governors.” SEEN THIS MAN? Ha eon a young man] about 25 years old, 5 foot 2, welkle ing 140 pounds, working at some soda water fountain? If #0, it I Charles Miles of St, Paul, Mile le@ his wife dnd baby May 4, while intoxicated. He hasn't been seen since. It is thought that he may be in this city, as Re had often talked of golng to Seattle, HISTORICAL FIND —Excavating for labor unearthed Street the cornerstone of ti second mission ghurch, the locatign of which has daffied historians for many years. liver coins, three sacred medals and a silver cross are held by Superintend. ent John Worthington of the gas company today and will be formally presented next week to Santa Clara college. The cornerstone is said to have been laid by the famous rea in 1781, June &. OD nan, hotel shot and NEW Stoke YORK millionaire etor and hor | Graham nounced hysicia would get well 1 guess those « how averse | am to parting from my money,” he said, Stokes al sged that he was shot when he re to pay money demanded turn of letters written to Mins didn't know anybody ride on coronation edbeteh Within a very short time the! old-style public drinking cups tn} Seattle may be entirely a “thing of the past.” Officials of the health department stated today that at the next ™ ing of the city counell they would ask for action to re move all the old-fashioned drinking cups in the city and install the sanitary fountain. schieeinninandincsiaeastisiiun meniainiialipee a as BOSTON—Mrs. Gra jwilled her “wines, Hquore clothes” to her son and left $ to Harvard to allow worthy grad- uates to take trips abre CHICAGO—Ella K. Ewing Gorin, Mo, tallest woman in the| world, is tn Chicago to get medical | treatment for a weak heart. She te nine feet one and a halt inches bigh and weighs 385 pounds. y of getting | ht they had the, langh on Him,” t# the belief of the v. Herbert Johnson of the Warren Baptist chureb. DURHAM, N. C.—Bachelor of| PROSECUTOR MURPHY [arts degrece have been conferred Who conducted the prosecution |on &§ confederate soldiers who, at) }of Wapepnstein. Murphy's closing the outbreak of the ctvil war, quit| argument in the case today was one the University of North Carolina to of the most forceful ever heard in/fight for the south | the courthouse. LOS ANGELES—Fred Strong, thief, will undergo a sur-| his brain tat honest. Strong court made the] make him [es the Know lt gel F. W. Stevenson & Co., brokers, | offer Bailey Bide, are advised profits | i should be taken on long stocks. *** CHICAGO—As @ compromise to! —— welling his 2yearcold son outright | to relieve financial distress or fac ing actual hunger, Henry D. Bel monte offers to pawn the verge for scieliiintiiiiaial 50c 2x7 BRUSH This doliars WIRE oh wilt the work of twe | Despite the fact that the city |council two weeks ago adopted a |resolution for the paving of Lander | street, across 22 railroad tracks, the! |street committee yesterday recon | sidered the action and it will be tak en up again. Representatives of railroads appeared before the com: | mittee, protesting against the grade | crossing bicesd contended that life tees that would epoll @ Dristie Uruah ane mat ox mame bow tee ‘vel Handle Hutchers lock ing Brush ere “HISTORY OF WAPPENSTEIN CASE YOURS FOR BARGAINS Spinning’s Bargain Store 1615-1417 FOURTH AVE. Wappen tein becomes chief Mayor Cill takes “Brewery Recall of Gill recalled February 7, 19 Wappenstein resigned Febr , 1911, " . Jury giyen case today, See these picture stories MILLIONAIRE SHOT BY TWO GIRLS WILL RECOVER | the two young won This ts the state coach tn which King George and Queen Mary will from Buckingham palace to Westminster Abbey WILL ASK COUNCIL TO REMOVE OLD PUBLIC CUPS)-.” Grade Crossing Problem Restricted district opens March 21, 1910. District closed by courts August, Council investigators take testimony Octobe ill started October, Seven more indictments against V Wappy’s trial set for May 24, 1911. Jury selected May 31, 1911. Mine Graham and Miss Conrad} MEXICO ¢ making plags for thelr defense | phar today. They have consulted thelr attorneys and seem satinfied with| have wiped regi case caused grea City today, endeavoring n wouth believe that Stokes The Japanese the only wit nesses besides the girls and Stokes, rushed into the room, believing the millionaire had attacked the girls. Their sypry, it Is generally beljeved would be at least as favorable to} roundabout n as to Btokes.| According 0 0 Colima The erally dropped reported kt are still on todhy nila, reported to The area swept sagen Just recelvy point fifty recurring of the statemente working int and the reports could have ¢ Platanar and San Andre A STARTLIN QUAKE REPORT hited Press Leased Wire.’ CITY, June 9.—Reports earthquake shocks out ) and west of here have t excitement in Mexicc and the authorities aré to ascertaly the truth Hundreds af& ed. Telegraph wires rmittently me in ways to the reports, the vol t ruption To-| are have been wiped out. according to mes extends from « uth of here to a ie tn viole towns of Zapotin, the lower boundary of Guerrero. large cities in the| |FOUR DROWN IN AN EFFORT TO SAVE ONE But the Girl, Who Was Thought to Be Drowning, nves Herself. United Press Leased Wire) June 9—Mre wy NEW ORLEANS, 8. Cc. her two boys, and Annie Coursey, aged 10, are dead here today, the red¥it of attempt ing té™save Peari Coursey from drowning. All werpgon # Sunday lachoot picnic along the banks | the Bow river. Little Peart jout « bit too far and the cugent swept her off her feet In making attempts to reach | Pearl, Mrs. Tanner, her two boys, and Annie Coursey were swept out in midetream and drowned. Pear! |caught hold of # stump after they |were all in the water and saved Tanner, was GREATEST FLIGHT “~"" (By United ¥ he: BERT stimulate the w purpo day preparation race ever The course follows: Be burg, Munster, Di ia chapelle, Cannell, Dessau and and back again POSSIBLE DEATH (Dy United ¥ + PASO, no gv: to would be Dr, Stevens, of the health office,| left for in commenting The *Star's|assume the effort to have the diseaso-spread-| state of Chi ing cups removed, said that the|his plans ¢ council! can eliminate them here,[ing, but that health authorities through out the state have decided to ask for the adoption of a state law, in order that cups may be removed from trains, in stores, and every other public place. trains, all escorted fore he restore he had no f ie or against him left Kiel, Nordhausen, killed, Chihuahua City departing for Chihua' noon on.a special train the orde: ported roan Lenned Wire Dire to tie Star Office) June %—Designed to agation, “f for military erman aviators are to up their machines tn for the greatest mr held tm this country is 1,200 miles long, rlin, Magdeburg, Han Schwerin 1% Duisburg, Dortinund, Halberstadt, Berlin . NOR FACES ‘vean Leased Wire Direct to Reattlo Mar Office.) Tex., June 9 the warning Abram that he Gonzales today governorship of th Wiuehua. He changed wiee during the morn: @ about ‘Two other a with troops, governor. Be he asserted he would | rin the state and said ear of the plot which it has been formed who wants to CHICAGO—Rather than change the date, Miss Bertha Hornburg got the license herself and went to the! hospital where WilMam Reimer was suffering from an operation. The marriage ceremony was performed ALLENTOWN, Pa—J. B. Hag. gin, Lexington turfman, get a new record price for bulls by paying $15,000 for T, 8. Cooper's Noble of Oaklands BRAZIL, Ind—This city, the home of the largest Sunday school in the world, has gone “wet” by 712 Only one precinct voted dry. Quality LONDON—Queen Mary’s coron ation crown of diamonds weighs| 19 ounces, about the weight of an ordinary bat. McDON CHICAGO—Reports from Paris Indicate that a Chicago girl soon 1023 Third Ave. The Trimmest Styles—The Most Try « FILLMORE. All Styles. $2.50 ALO'S HAT STORE Near Spring Paying | Crawford Has | Another Trick Crawford has a new scheme of makigg money Instead of, @ 16 cent fare to Renton, he has devised a plan wherely makes an extra nickel All Renton cars run to Kenyon st. One nickel is charged to this point. When you reach Kenyon st you must change cars to go out side of the city limits, No stops are made by theme cars within city Hmits,+ and one 10-cent fare is l charged In this ingenious way Crawford makes an extra 5-cent piece out of Jegch one of his patrons living out [wide elty limits. | ‘The injunction case will be beard in Judge Dykeman'’s cqurt next Monday. AVIATORS FALL TOKIO, June 9.—The first serious jaccident to mar the success of the | military aeroplane experiments at |the Tokososawa aviation grounds occurred this morning when two of- | fleers were injured: After sailing 24 miles, a Bleriot monoplane, carrying Captain Toku- gawa of the army and SubLiew jtenant Ito of. the navy, suddenly fell to earth, injuring both aviators Fortunately, the monoplane was not high in the alr, and neither occu- pant was fatally injured POR HETTY GREE CHICAGO, June 9—One in- stance where Hetty Green fin- ished second best in a real es- tate transaction is on record here today. through sale some land in Game Park. The coup, which was executed by Cretertek H. Bartiett and Stevens, is ssid to love netted them the nest profit of $225,000 before the property passed into the hands of Cobe and McKinnon, its present owners. NELSON, C.—Frank C. Arm- strong of New York and D. Lorne MeGibbon of Montreal have se- cured control of the Summit mine on Sheep creek. The price Is said “to be $200,000. may be the “first lady of France.” She ie Maw, Ribot, nee Marie Webb Burch, whose husband ts said to be slated for the presidency, NEW SALEM, Mase—Samuel| Putnam, aged 104, and who voted in the election of President John Quincy Adams, ts dead at bis home herer He was @ lineal descendant of General Israci Putnam iil Now is would be greatly endangered and traffic impeded. In opposition to the railroads |Were the manufacturing interests along the waterfront, which have difficulty in reaching First ay, un- der present conditions. R. G. West erman, of the Westerman Iron Works, held that most of the tracks are “dead” and used by the rail roads to store their cara on. that you March 23, 1910. 1910, trip September, 1910. 1910. ship” 1910. ul wary 11, 1911, Grand jury cballed February 14, 1911. Grand jury selected February 17, First indictment against Wappenstein returned Febraary 1911, »py up to April 23, 1911 the time to buy. 1 cannot help For $1.00 a Week your Summer Suit, and we are placing on sale for tomorrow a line of Men's Suits at prices buying credit, and you can pay us as little as $1.00 a week on any Remember, we give you garment you may select. BIG REDUCTIONS IN The kind you lik other Rochester ma Men’s Suits ach as Adler's and s, in worsteds a serges, in beautiful new ora and ex- cellent styles, a $20.00 a Suit a And you can pay us $1.00 a week on same. For Saturday of} [Nunan Acquitted a Second Time THOMAS E. NUNAN For the second time, Thomas & Nunan, ¢x-assistant fire chief, wag acquitted of stealing an $8 pair of shoes from the Byres Storage com pany at the big fire on the water front jast April 24. Justice Brown dismissed the charge against Ni on the preliminary examination, the fire fighter showing that bis” owm shoes had been cut during the and he took the boots for self pre tection For some reason, Mayor Dil was determined that Nunan si be prosecuted. Immediately after Nunan was released by Ji Brown he was arrested for same offense on @ grand jury ime dictment. A jury in Judge Gay's court yesterday deliberated 40 mite utes and declared, by thetr verdict, 7 that Nunan was not guilty. « Charged With Fraud John M. Hunsicker, minyte cette in the county clerk's office and @ candidate for «the Jegislature last fall, wae arrested yesterday by the United States marshal on ap im dictment returned by the federal grand jury at Tacoma, him with felsifying the census count. Hunsicker was the enume rator for a district south of Yesler Way, which included most of the Japanese lodging houses. He ig a} leged to have listed 299 fictitions names. HUTESON Yoon OPTICAL 1330 2YAVEg \n AMVSRMENTS, | : MOORE THEATRE fombined | Stellar Engagement Piays of Bhakespeare. Curtains, evening, cu sharp; matihees, 3 o'clock si BUGENE LEVY, Manager. First Kun Photoplays and Vaudeville. m $ and 19 centa CONTINUOUS PERFO * Can Check Their Babies Here | THROM jes fee Sa Yate fatinee—100 and 25. Telephones, Main 104, Ind Thritiing Melodrama This W ALASKA" By ‘Linegin J. Garter Motion Pictures and liustrated Set 'S—10-20-80 ee irs x, Human Years” GRAND OPERA HOUSE Box Seats 260 | a: 2a * P unusNal pound Mins idence Our Ladies’ Suit Department We have grouped about 100 Suits former- ly sold at $30.00 and $25.00, Special at $15.00 And pay us $1.00 a week, on our Radium Screen today or tomorrow; “What You Eat” Queer things {n your food, as shown by the mi croscope. [. | ARGUMENT OF 6 M. SHIPLEY SUMMARIZED The question is, did Wa tein enter into agreement with Gerald jand Tupper for conducting Spiaway and Paris’ houses, and did he re lcelve money from them? Reviewd whole testimony and points out that even by testimony jot Gerald and Tupper, Wappenstein has not been accused of any time |saying that he had a share se houses, or desired a share, except, | ad |nccording to Gd Tupper, | ter the houses were running, that he Love Stronger demanded $10 @ month for girl , Gid Tupper’s tostimony Ufreliable, Tupper having admitted to! Than Duty’ lswearing falsely before council investigators, Tupper always a re-| The man-hunt that ends | stricted district character. ake eae Awks jury to return verdlét, without regard to the Bertie’s Reformation” may have on public mind. j The next morning after the night before. “Fires of Fate” Drama Admission 5c National Union Labor Wins Victory In First Legal Skirmish Union Wher, écfending S. B. H. bag was contained not in this Conners, F. Ira Bender, and A. B.)but in the battle to obtain, posses- Maple, accused of attempting to|stoe ofa copy of the transcript of dynamite the Hall of Records build-| testimony takes before the grand ing lagt September, won a signal! jury and which resulted in the in eee ie the otra real, skirmish | dictments ? wi the prosecution, when the| Judge Willis, afte cases of the three men to plead on | arguments, ruled that ee ant, indictments against them were call- | was entitled to a eopy five days be ed todag in Judge Willis’ court. fore the date set for the trial, that ‘The case was continued one week | being his interpretation of the law by request of the defense, but Me | made by the last legislature, which 5 provides that defendants .in the srand Jury cases shall receive ehe Little Danny Cupid ie still main- copy “five days before their trial,’ taining a lead @f six marriage li. ToucHED WIRE; KILLED, censes to date in the tonth of| SANTA MONICA, Cal, June 9 June, a8 compared with last year's | While working on an incandescent record. In all, 123 licenses were {s-| Circuit 1n connection with the elec. sued by Claude F. Gage in the aud-| tric ilght plant here, W. J. Reid, an itor’s office at the courthouse from | electrician, touched a live wire and Both Phones S106, THE » MASON &@ KEELER “In and Out” This Week—A Rig ONE influence same Ladies’ Millinery Section ‘Trimmed Hats, some for Saturday special, Low Round Trip Rates To All Eastern Points via Canadian Pacific Railway Six hundred miles unsurpassed scen@ry through = Canadian Rocky Mountains and National Park, ° EDMUND STANLEY & CO. In the Operetta “A ROYAL ROMANCE” (Big “e & Ladies’ of them we sold as high as $15.00; tomorrow, look over,our merchandise, count with us and— Pay Us $1.00 a Week Come open an ac- ~ PANTAGES THEATE R Dnequaled Yawdevilte.” Notable Shanish THE SIX AHMEARS Rush Ling Toy & Com Eluatve, Surring TODAY 2190, 7 June 1 to 5 o'clock yesterday after-| Was instantly killed. noon, In 1910, the first eight days in June showed only 117. June 8 Wouldn't Take the Hint, Theatre For information, dates and rates, call or write e E. E. PENN, ° G. A. P. D. H, W. EDWARDS, TL A. ‘Open Saturday Evening Until 10 o’Clock and | COLISEUM Third Ave and James St. FLICKERLESS: DAY | ALL NEW FILMS FIRST | | 260 CPRERA CHAIKS Se showed a like record for both years, with 17 licenses each. The score: June 1 to $ inclusive Per cent gain} 1910 7 .. 1911 123 .. Wife—I see you're putting on 719 Second Av,, Seattle. your new coat, It makes my old|| “The Lit uee ware ace The House of the Radium Husband—Is that #0? Well, that's beatae 00/soon mended. I'll put on my old Sethaeas Ps ae Star classified aie 051 | cout.—Fliegende Blatter, 4 sell real estate, etc. » 315 Pike aye a Buy or